developer and single guy Mark Bradford says he has created a
better dating website.
Bradford became single again after a recent divorce, he found little
harmony and no perfect matches on national dating websites. So the
Greendale web developer built a site of his own, OnlyaGlance.com.
"A friend urged me to go to those websites and they just weren’t
working," Bradford says. "Other sites have it
backwards," he says. "They allow someone to look you over
and suddenly just approach you out of nowhere."
users look at pictures of possible romantic interests. By clicking
"glance" on a picture, a notice is sent to the person in
that picture that someone glanced at them.
receiving the glance can choose to glance back and find out more
information such as age, status, kids and ZIP code. "(They are)
simple things that you would get out of small talk, but nothing too
can then choose to "chat" and exchange further information
but only if both parties agree. If at anytime during the process a
dating candidate is not interested in a certain individual, the
candidate won’t see that picture again and the pictured individual
won’t see the candidate again. If the chat goes well, the candidates
can agree to meet.
other sites allow people to send out hundreds of invitations;
OnlyaGlance permits candidates to chat with a limit of three people at
any given time. "Some people go on these sites because they want
pen pals. They’re not serious, taking time away from possibly
meeting the person you could marry," Bradford says.
And unlike other
sites, OnlyaGlance is free to use. "No website can create
relationships, but if our site can put ‘A’ in front of ‘B’ and
help people connect who normally wouldn’t have connected, that would
be very satisfying," Bradford says.